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Thursday 22 Oct 2015 - 13:03 Makkah mean time-9-1-1437
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's. Photo from AP
Sarajevo, (IINA) - A senior religious leader of Bosnian Muslims protested on Wednesday against what he called the Hungarian Prime Minister's "arbitrary and damaging" remarks about Islam and Europe in the migrant crisis, saying they were uttered out of ignorance, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
As hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim migrants and refugees poured into the European Union states, including Hungary, this year, right-wing Prime Minister Orban called them a threat to Europe's prosperity, security and "Christian values".
Bosnia's Efendi Husein Kavazovic, who leads Europe's largest community of indigenous Muslim Slavs known for their moderation and tolerance of other religions, objected to remarks by Orban in an interview with German magazine Focus this week.
Educated people know that just as Islam had come to Europe from elsewhere, so had Christianity and Judaism, he said.
Hungary has since sealed its southern borders with a steel fence to keep out migrants trekking north through the Balkans from Greece, and issued new laws rights groups say deny refugees their right to seek protection from war and persecution.
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